Seinfeld: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best

Season 1, Episode 1. Where the show would end up, nobody yet knew. Would it be condemned to the scrap pile with so many other attempted sitcoms of the era, or would it fly into the history books?

Obviously, it was the latter, though the former was close to happening too, with people hating the pilot episode. Said pilot had some quite drastic elements missing, the most potent of which was the character of Elaine Benes. This was rectified when producers said the show needed a female influence.

Otherwise, the first season consisted of just five episodes and you could tell there was a show in there somewhere waiting to break free, it just wasn't there yet. The full whacky-ness and absurd-ness was not yet unleashed upon the world, though that wouldn't take long to rectify in subsequent seasons.

The best of the bunch is probably 'The Stock Tip', in which Jerry receives a stock tip from George, leading him to invest money in the stock and losing money, whereas George keeps his money in the tip and nets a large profit.